For single mom Kenya Pickering, the American dream of home ownership was just that — a dream, and a seemingly impossible one.

Rhode Island-based builder and designer Kenneth Young, 66, first began volunteering with Habitat for Humanity in the 1990s. After his first "Carter build" in 1995 in Watts, California, a neighborhood ...

The Carters, who long put their faith into action, were in Milwaukee in June 1989 as part of a Habitat for Humanity project ...